In the sudden and egregious disillusionment that has overtaken us we revolt against the current order of things, so arduously and so proudly built up, because it reveals itself now as illogical and incompetent, as fostering injustice rather than equity, as tending towards selfishness, oppression, the destruction of liberty, the exaltation of ignorance, vulgarity and venality, and because it has engendered fear, jealousy, cruelty and hatred instead of love, fellowship and compassion. . . .
Beauty must be linked again with life, and art given back its true service.
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present a new limited chapbook edition of Ralph Adam Cram’s Ordeal by Beauty, a challenging indictment of modernity, which describes the antidote to its sterility and decadence. As the recovery of beauty remains a vital concern for the twenty-first century, an era of re-enchantment, this needful essay is now being offered to the modern reader.
Available for purchase on October 6, 2025.
NEW POETRY
Because Love, Too by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Gossip About Books and Authors: It is to be noted that these meaningless strings of words are supposed to be complete sentences. And as similar meaningless string of words are to be found in every other page of the book, we must assume that the author has written them down deliberately and in protest against the outworn dogmas of the grammarians.
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